Hi,A set of systems I manage is being relocated from one hosting provider toanother. Although I'm trying to avoid it if possible there is the chancethat this will requirechanging the IP addressing to suit the new location. The recommended methodto change system IP configs is sys-unconfig. ...

Hi Managers,I am having a problem installing a Creator3D series 3card on an ULTRA 10. The machine was purchasedwithout the card and it was decided later that thecard is needed. I installed the card as per theinstructions included which was to check the OBPversion and if sufficient, open the ...

Hi All,I need a hack to stop people logging into CDE via the dtlogin banner onSPARC Solaris 7 and 8. I don't want to uninstall the CDE components asthey may be required later.Ideally I'd like to remove the CDE option from the Sessions menu but Idon't think this is possible. Failing that I'd ...

A co-worker of mine recently said he'd heard a rumor that the LOM interfaceon a Netra X1 could be converted into a third ethernet interface. I'mwondering if anyone else has heard this and, if so, how would this be done?--Dylan Northrup <*> northrup at loudcloud.com <*> Evil ...

Anyone been able to use the new Cisco VPN Client over PPP? I can install the<br>package (which I can send to anyone who's interested but you need the install<br>document found on Cisco's web site) and load the driver but can't connect to<br>the driver.<p>Jesse Carroll<br>

Wow, I never cease to be amazed by this list.Thanks to Casper Dik, Peter Laws, Mike Salehi, Fortunato Ugo Sion, DaveStern and Russ Poffenberger (and still they are coming in).....Just to clarify I want to keep dtlogin so that users can still select fromOpenWindows, FailSafe and Gnome. I just ...

Hi All<p>I have an old Sun microelectronics box and I'd like to replace it with a new one. I'm looking for recommendations of sellers of these boxes.<p>thanks in advance<br>

Thanks to Michael J. Connolly, Peter Stokes, and MarkMcManus. Michael suggested that I probably didn'tinstall everything that I needed and indeed, that wasthe case. I needed to install multiple packages andonly installed the one. The correct list of packagesto install is:system SUNWffb ...

Dan provided the correct solution the this problem.Summary:The patches would not install because of thepermissions we placed on the root home directory(700).When the patch was moved to a folder with lessrestrictive permissions, it installed like a dream.Thanks Dan.Thanks Casper, Mike and the ...

Jed Dobson, Michael Kondratov and Peter Stokes wrote back to say that theLOM interface is a serial only interface. Peter Stokes mentioned thepossiblity of using a null modem cable and running PPP over it, but I don'tthink that's what was being mentioned. . . my original query is ...

Hi Experts ,This week I have given task of upgrading memory on our Web productionservers . These 5 systems are E4000 .and critical for our business. are there any known gotchas /issues in upgrading RAM on these systems ? attaching my plan : <<Saegis Memory Upgrade.doc>> ...

Hi iam new in this mail list and i hope that you can help me whit thisproblem:i install Sendmail in my server and all is ok but this messages is continuos: savemail panic savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhereand i don4t know the reazon...... can you help ...

Hy Managers,When I try to use prtdiag in a 420R it doesn't give us the memory dimm'sinstalled, like the 450 does for example. They are both Solaris 8. There isany other command to check how many dimm's are installed without open themachine?Com os melhores cumprimentos,Joco CisarMinistirio do ...

Does anyone know of a way to find new files put in a file system instead ofusing find? I don't really need to know the file names, I just need to knowif a file was added to the file system. Currently, I use the find command andthe -newer option and check all of the files in the file system ...

Hi Gurus ,Yesterday due to power outage my server got rebooted ungracefully . I amrunning Solaris 8 on E450 & oracle applications 11i .Actually i repaired crupted filesystems with # fsck -y . But now apps is notrunning properly .Then i checked lost+found directory i have some missing files ...

I have the following PS1 varible defined in a .bashrcfile. When run remotely the prompt displays thehostname,current working directory, and prompt.However, when run locally, the host name and anddirectory name appear if different colors. Hostname isgreen, no working directory, and the prompt is ...

I'm pretty much slapping a Sun 420R together out of spare parts to be aroot-disk clone machine. The chasis I'm using has no cpu's in it andI have 2 to use. Standing behind the machine at the expansion slots with the memory to the left of the cpu slots, what is the order (counting the slots ...

I have an E2 running Solaris2.7. It has 2 ethernet interfaces. I tried tochange one and now I seem to have serious problems with the routing tables. one interface is 192.168.1.2 and is hme0, this has not changed. the interface was 64.65.195.102 and is hme1 I changed it to 10.0.0.2 by modifying ...

Hi,<p>I have a Sun server with Veritas VM. The boot disk is under VM encapsulation<br>without mirroring. I want to replace the boot disk because it makes loud<br>noise. I can pop in another disk. I can mirror the root disk. What will be<br>next in order to replace this drive? Thanks!<p>Jeff Kao<br>

Hello Gurus, I have a strange problem going on on a 450 running sol 8.I have over 650 accounts on the system, but when i try to create anotheroneusing both admintool or useradd it wont letme , i create the entries onthe /etc/passwdand /etc/shadow manually but when i try to change the password ...

Hi ,<p> Does any one know of any docs or any files that tells the<br>error messages relating to JNI HBA going bad. Only HBA.<p>Regards,<p>Chandrashekar Mani<br>

Hi,I'm looking for a tool to compare two filesystems. For example, let's saythat I have a mirrored filesystem, and I want to install a software. Ifirst break the mirror then install the new software. Then I umount thefilesystem. I then have two filesystems : one before the installation, ...

I have a disk that was swapped out hot without running the ssaadmremove_device command. There was no file system mounted. Now when the systemboots up I receive the following errorWarning: Device sd7 failed to power upThe format command reports the followingc0t8d0 <drive type unknown>/pci ...

Kudo's to Paul and Dylan.Both responded with more amiable usage of the PS1varible.FromPS1="\[\033[1;31m\]*** \[\033[1;32m\]\h\[\033[1;31m\]*** \[\033[1;35m\]\w\n\[\033[0m\]\[\033[1;33m\]\u >\[\033[0m\]"CamePS1="*** \h *** \w \n \u ...

I am *so* glad I found the new home of this list!I'll try to make this question as simple as possible.I know that in Solaris8, you can use IP Multipathing (in.mpathd) toprovide failover across a pair of ethernet interfaces.I also know that with 2 physical interfaces, you will need a total of 4 ...

Sunmanagers,I have a SunBlade 100 workstation running Solaris 804/01 that is hooked up to a Belkin KVM switch. TheSunBlade now only uses USB mouse and keyboard. I havea PC x86 PS/2 keyboard operating through the KVMswitch which works fine in Solaris until I use thepipe key "|". Also ...

I am running IPMP on a 6800, with two gigabit ethernetfiber interfaces. See below for the hostname.geX andhosts files. And I just had a couple questions.When does the server use both interfaces for outboundpackets? Does it use the same IP source address onpackets exiting both interfaces? What ...

Thans a lot to all of responsesfrom the most logical one from: "Harrington, David B (Contractor)" <dharrington at dscr.dla.mi" to checkuniq UIDor other method that I try which also came from: Nicolas Dorfsman <ndo at woup.net>Or the folks who tellme that could be NIS, ...

Has anybody installed and/or compiled a 64bit version of zip/unzip on Solaris 8 ? If so, where did you get the binaries or source ?<p>-Ed<br>

Thanks to "Igor Schein" <igor at txc.com>Original question.> I'm running Solaris 7 x86 webserver (Apache+ModPerl ). Today running topI> saw that almost half of my swap is used by something.> There is more than 20% of RAM on the server listed as "free" and ...

Hi All,I am facing problem with a newly configured solaris 8 machine. Anyrsh command from other machine(any other version of solaris or evensolaris 8 and machine itself) to it fails without giving and output(.rhosts permissions are all ok). if I check $? it has value 1. Butnothing ...

Dear Sun managers,I keep getting these errors in my /var/adm/messages. Dec 19 10:48:09 my-dns named[189]: reloading nameserverDec 19 10:48:09 my-dns named[189]: Ready to answer queries.Dec 19 10:49:41 my-dns named[189]: unapproved update from[211.227.84.11].5400 for lock.biz.comDec 19 10:55:56 ...

Hello All, Can any one of you point me to resources where I can findinformation on How do a costing on the resources used by sites hosted on mySun Boxes?ThanksShyam---------------------------------Shyam SunderCognizant Technology Solutions LtdTel: +91 (0)44-2540555Mbl: +91 ...

Adding for informatio:The command fails for both for normal user and root. We use "+" inhosts.equiv file. For root I tried after making .rhost entry.One more thing I noticed that rsh command shows similar behavior forroot ( as hosts.equiv + is not valid for root) from the ...

Hi all,We have two networks, one is 172.x.x.x and 192.x.x.xOne of the 172 network acts as a gateway for 192 suchthat both networks can talk with each other. However,only 172 network can be routed to outside world ( I supposethe router in 172 network use NAT to map 172 IPs to some realIPs).The ...

Hi all,Thanks for many comments.Almost all suggest I should use automount and nowI did the followings(1) Export the /export/home in all clients# vi /etc/dfs/dfstabshare -F nfs /export/home(2) Start the NFS daemons if not yet started# /etc/init.d/nfs.server start(3) Share the resources# ...

Hi allAnyone has the experience on using SUNBLADE 100 and 1000 ?We have all U10 as clients and would like to have an alternative.SUNBLADE100 is one of our choice. However, we want to havesome benchmark results comparing different models as we havelots of simulations to run everyday and so needs ...

HiWe have to install several boxes with identical configuration. Solarisjumpstart help us to do it, butthe jumpstart_sample from the distribution CD is quite simple:install_type initial_installsystem_type standalonepartitioning defaultcluster SUNWCprogfilesys any 50 swapIt's ...

Hi,Thanks to all who responded, especially:"Suresh Vuthamaraju" <svuthamaraju at synapsemail.com>"Kevin Reichhart" <KReichhart at Yantra.com>"Peter Stokes" <peter at ashlyn.co.uk>"UnixAdmin" <sunixadm at yahoo.com>"Jed ...

Well, I was unable to resolve this issue. All the command I tried to removethe route failed. It had been suggested that I add a route to the net andthat would allow me to delete the host route, but this just left me with tworoutes that I was unable to delete. ifconfig <int> ...

Unfortunately, no joy on this one. (Original message at end)Thanks to: "Fletcher, Joe" <joe.fletcher at Metapack.com> Lars Hecking <lhecking at nmrc.ie> Casper Dik <Casper.Dik at Sun.COM>and "Reetz, Donovan" <Donovan.Reetz at Abacus-Direct.com> ...

Unfortunately, no joy on this one. (Original message at end)Thanks to: "Fletcher, Joe" <joe.fletcher at Metapack.com> Lars Hecking <lhecking at nmrc.ie> Casper Dik <Casper.Dik at Sun.COM>and "Reetz, Donovan" <Donovan.Reetz at Abacus-Direct.com> ...

I want to do a ps -aef and grep for qmail and then kill -9 all thosepids[root at s201 qmail-1.03]# ps -aef | grep qmailroot 18715 18714 0 09:17 pts/2 00:00:00 supervise qmail-sendroot 18717 18714 0 09:17 pts/2 00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpdqmails 18719 18715 1 09:17 pts/2 ...

Hello experienced admins,I had a request by a group of users here: they want the new files created under a certain directory to me read-write-executable for all users, of all groups, on the server. Unfortunately, by default, files are created (by umask) to be only readeable, and for most ...

Hello,I have an 8 CPU E4500 server with 8GB memory, oracle 8.1.7 is running inthis server, the SGA is 600 MB and the max processes are 2000. The 5 minutesload average is over 2 half of the time and peaked over 4 everyday, shouldthis be concerned about?Thanks.James Zhaojames at ...

Well, I guess it was a pretty simple question, because a got a quick anwser and it works!A particular thanks to Ed Rolison for his anwser:-----------------------------------------------------setfacl works. You can usesetfacl -m ...

hi gurus, Is there any tool for access sendmail through web. thanks in advance,if somebody let us know abt links.thanks,prasanna__________________________________________________Do You Yahoo!?Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all ofyour unique holiday gifts! Buy at ...

Hi.I've just installed the clusterpatch from sunsolve (dated 12/19/01) and got a very critical problem in my SunOS 5.7 system. After installing I got:ld.so.1: ftp: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1: symbol _libc_register_forkhandler: referenced symbol not foundKilledOn a lot ...

Hello all, I am in the process of implementing a solution to keep track of patch revisions that we have installed don machines. Our shop is a production/development enviornment. As we go along and upgrade machines and install new revisions I would like to keep track of our old setups and ...

Hello all, We're in the process of upgrading disk hardware on and existingsystem running Solaris 2.6 with Disksuite 4.1. The root/system slicesare currently software mirrored and I need to move all the replicadatabase from their existing locations to new ones, while maintainingthe existing ...